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Design and Evaluation of ScanCap: A Low-Cost, Reusable Tethered Capsule Endoscope with Blue-Green Illumination Imaging for Unsedated Screening and Early Detection of Barrett’s Esophagus

Bioengineering
Esophageal carcinoma is the sixth-leading cause of cancer death worldwide. A precursor to esophageal adenocarcinoma (EAC) is Barrett’s Esophagus (BE).
Cheima Hicheri, Ahad M. Azimuddin, Alex Kortum, Joseph Bailey, Yubo Tang, Richard A. Schwarz, Daniel Rosen, Shilpa Jain, Nabil M. Mansour, Shawn Groth, Shaleen Vasavada, Ashwin Rao, Adrianna Maliga, Leslie Gallego, Jennifer Carns, Sharmila Anandasabapathy, Rebecca Richards-Kortum   +16 more
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Waveguide Photoactuators: Materials, Fabrication, and Applications

Advanced Robotics Research, EarlyView.
Waveguide photoactuators convert guided light into mechanical motion. Their tethered‐flexible design enables minimally invasive surgery and confined‐space robotics. This review aims to guide materials selection, device design, and system integration, accelerating the transition of waveguide photoactuators from laboratory prototypes to versatile ...
Minjie Xi, Hemin Pan, Yang Zong, Yongfeng Mei, Jizhai Cui   +4 more
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Hybrid Continuum Robot Designs and Architectures for Healthcare Applications

Advanced Robotics Research, EarlyView.
Hybrid continuum robots represent an emerging class of flexible manipulators that blend materials, structures, and actuation concepts from the established fields of soft and continuum robotics. This review introduces an accessible framework to distinguish key hybridization approaches, surveys current designs aimed at complex clinical applications, and ...
Burak Ozdemir, Muhammad A. Khalid, Manish Chauhan, Pietro Valdastri, James H. Chandler   +4 more
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Three-Dimensional Localization of a Robotic Capsule Endoscope Using Magnetoquasistatic Field

IEEE Access, 2020
Recent research efforts regarding advanced Robotic Capsule Endoscopes (RCEs) have primarily focused on the development of actively locomotive endoscope capsules.
Si-Liang Liu, Jayoung Kim, Byungjeon Kang, Eunpyo Choi, Ayoung Hong, Jong-Oh Park, Chang-Sei Kim   +6 more
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Cross‐Scale Hierarchical Targeted Delivery System Based on Small‐Scale Magnetic Robots

Advanced Robotics Research, EarlyView.
This article reviews a cross‐scale hierarchical targeted delivery system that integrates magnetic continuum robots and magnetic microrobots. By combining rapid long‐range navigation with precise microscale targeting, the system overcomes key limitations of single‐scale approaches.
Junjian Zhou, Zhiqiang Chen, Yuanbiao Ma, Zhiqiang Tang, Qianqian Wang   +4 more
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Performance evaluation and future prospects of capsule robot localization technology

Geo-spatial Information Science
Capsule Robot Endoscope (CRE), as one of the widely used methods of gastrointestinal medical examination, has the characteristics of painless, non-cross infection, and no movement restriction, compared with other traditional endoscopes.
Yan Xu, Peng Zhang, Lei Wang, You Li, Bin Luo, Yue Yu, Ruizhi Chen   +6 more
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AI‐Enhanced Vibrational Capsule for Minimally Invasive Detection of Abnormal Bowel Tissue

Advanced Science, EarlyView.
A fully integrated vibration‐assisted capsule is presented for the minimally invasive detection of bowel lesions. The capsule incorporates a wireless sensor and an eccentric motor to probe tissue mechanics in situ. By coupling triaxial vibration signals with AI‐based classification and analytical modeling, the system enables early, non‐visual ...
Xizheng Fang, Yao Yan, Kenneth Omokhagbo Afebu, Andrew Bickerdike, Bo Tian, Yang Liu, Shyam Prasad   +6 more
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A Strain Decoupling Packaging Strategy for High‐Fidelity Ultrathin Silicon Shape Sensors for Soft Medical Robotics

Advanced Science, EarlyView.
Reliable soft sensors are essential for precise control in soft medical robots such as endoscopes. We developed ultrathin silicon piezoresistive sensors and their oil‐lubricated slidable packaging, which enables high‐fidelity shape sensing of silicon gauges by mechanically isolating the sensing element within a dual‐layer film.
Hao Liu, Masahito Takakuwa, Michitaka Yamamoto, Yiwen Wang, Tomoyuki Yokota, Takao Someya, Toshihiro Itoh, Seiichi Takamatsu   +7 more
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Intelligent Soft Opto‐Magnetic Robot for Minimally Invasive Interventional Therapy

Advanced Science, EarlyView.
An intelligent soft opto‐magnetic (iSOM) robot is developed that integrates remote magnetic actuation, skin‐mimic tactile perception, and photothermal ablation in a near‐millimeter‐scale design. It enables precise intraluminal navigation and localized ablation while providing real‐time optical feedback to support safe and accurate minimally invasive ...
Jingjing Guo, Xiaoyan Guo, Jian Wei, Miaowen Jiang, Qifa Su, Xian Xia, Zhuozhou Li, Rong Cai, Jianguo Ma, Bo Fu, Ming Li, Jing Zhong, Lijun Xu, Xunming Ji   +13 more
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Preliminary study of an intestinal bio-robot system based on nerve stimulation

Journal of NeuroEngineering and Rehabilitation, 2012
Background Wireless capsule endoscopes for diagnosis and treatment in the gastrointestinal tract face the common problem of active actuation. To tackle this difficulty, a non-invasive intestinal bio-robot system with active actuation based on nerve ...
Zhu Lan, Liu Hongying, Wang Zhenyu, Pi Xitian, Zhou Shengshan   +4 more
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